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Report on the 2002 IEEE/Nasa Mass Storage Conference

Report on the 2002 IEEE/Nasa Mass Storage Conference. Where ? College Park, Maryland, USA When ? 15-18 April 2002 Who ? Jean-Philippe Baud and Fabien Collin from CERN-IT/DS Why ? IT-DS deeply involved in data storage (HW & SW aspects) URL : www.storageconference.org. Agenda.

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Report on the 2002 IEEE/Nasa Mass Storage Conference

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  1. Report on the 2002 IEEE/Nasa Mass Storage Conference Where ? College Park, Maryland, USA When ? 15-18 April 2002 Who ? Jean-Philippe Baud and Fabien Collin from CERN-IT/DS Why ? IT-DS deeply involved in data storage (HW & SW aspects) URL : www.storageconference.org

  2. Agenda Tutorials (4 presentations) Network storage (6) Hierarchical Storage Management (6) Storage Indexing (3) and Miscellaneous (3) Short papers (7) Vendor presentations (9) Panel : Storage 10 year prospective Conclusions and own impressions

  3. Tutorials : Day 1 (1-2/4) • Perpendicular recording : Seagate Research • Current longitudinal recording = ~ 100 Gbit/in2 • Perpendicular recording can achieve 1Tb/in2 • Superparamagnetic behaviour not avoided but delayed • With Perpendicular recording and Heat assisted magnetic recording, can go to 10 Tbit/in2 • Another 5x gain to 50 Tbit/in2 possible with HAMR + pattern medium (challenge is finding low cost means of making media) • Material for PASTA secondary storage group • Virtualisation : Storagetek • Lots of hype about this subject nowadays • Abstraction of storage that separates the host view from the storage subsystem implementation • Gave a few examples

  4. Tutorial : Day 1 (3-4/4) • iSCSI : Julian Satran, IBM Research Lab • Yet another iSCSI presentation from Julian • Object Storage Devices : Tom Ruwart, Ciprico • File system storage component moved inside the device itself • No longer a block interface but an object interface : being standardized as part of the SCSI T10 committee • Not affected by technology shifts • Decoupled physical storage technology from file system and applications • Ultimate virtualization technology • SCSI Standard • Material for PASTA secondary storage group

  5. Agenda Tutorials (4 presentations) Network storage (6) Hierarchical Storage Management (6) Storage Indexing (3) and Miscellaneous (3) Short papers (7) Vendor presentations (9) Panel : Storage 10 year prospective Conclusions and own impressions

  6. Network storage session • iSCSI performance : IBM Almaden • Latency measurements against FC within 5 % • Throughput 50 MB/s only using iSCSI software implementation: • Initiator CPU bottleneck due to interrupt overhead • TCP copy and checksum overhead • Improvements : • Jumbo frames : less interrupts but not standard and not in 10Gige • Zero copy transmit TCP/IP stack. Zero copy receive not possible • TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) : TCP/IP stack on the adapter. Zero copy receives not possible unless hints given by application • Most promising : Specialized iSCSI HBA but commodity Ethernet adapters cannot be used but infrastructure can

  7. Network storage session • DirectNFS : Calsoftinc (xNFS for HPLabs?) • A mixed NAS+SAN approach • Metadata caching, cache coherency through leases • Used FiST, a stackable file system generator • Could use FiST for Castor FS proof of concept ? • Single distributed file system using NFS : HPLabs • The poor’s man cluster server : NFS on top of NFS, hence the name NFS^2 : HPLabs really likes NFS… • Locating Logical volumes in a large network (HPLabs) • Using DNS and modified BGP routing protocols • Developed for SSPs ?

  8. Network storage session • HyperSCSI : Singapore University • An iSCSI clone without IP but with raw ethernet frames instead : Performance oriented. Can be tunneled with IP to link several sites • Interesting university work but unlikely to go beyond that (not standard, no product) • Point in time copy : IBM Haifa • A review of snapshot techniques in existing high end disk subsystem products (IBM ESS, STK SVA, EMC Timefinder, Hitachi) • Looking for improvements : OSD in particular

  9. Agenda Tutorials (4 presentations) Network storage (6) Hierarchical Storage Management (6) Storage Indexing (3) and Miscellaneous (3) Short papers (7) Vendor presentations (9) Panel : Storage 10 year prospective Conclusions and own impressions

  10. HSM session (1-3/6) • RAIT:Yet another STK presentation on RAIT • Performance & reliability (drive and media failures) • Said STK will announce a COTS device • Conceptual study of intelligent data archives of the future : NASA • Huge data sets, physically distributed data • MSS need to be intelligent • Blabla on requirements. Boring… • Storage Issues at NCSA : How to get file systems going wide and fast within and out of large scale Linux cluster systems : NCSA • Title totally misleading… This is in fact the history and inventory of NCSA storage HW/SW over the last 15 years • Evaluating GPFS with Myrinet. Performance issues.

  11. HSM session (4-5/6) • Data placement on tertiary storage (Purdue Univ) • Research work to try to gather data objects on tertiary storage depending on their relationship and the probability of access of these related objects • Storage resource managers (Arie Shoshani LBNL) • SRM are Middleware for Grid storage • Common interface to different MSS in a Grid environment • Implementation working for HPSS. Enstore/Castor in progress • Jean-Philippe had a long chat with Arie and his developers

  12. HSM session (6/6) • HPSS and SAN (IBM Glob Services) • Actual situation : • SAN is used between movers and devices but LAN is used between movers and HPSS clients • Future situation (2003) : • A SAN enabled HPSS client will be develop to allow direct transfers using the SAN between these clients and devices • However, because today’s SAN lack real security features, only trusted SAN enabled HPSS clients will profit from this. Non trusted clients (even the ones on the SAN) will use the LAN for data transfers to/from the movers.

  13. Agenda Tutorials (4 presentations) Network storage (6) Hierarchical Storage Management (6) Storage Indexing (3) and Miscellaneous (3) Short papers (7) Vendor presentations (9) Panel : Storage 10 year prospective Conclusions and own impressions

  14. Storage Indexing Session (1-2/3) • Intra file security (UCSC) • File encryption is an all or nothing operation • Provides the ability to encrypt only parts of a file (example : Satellite images) • Efficient storage & management of environmental information (Rutgers Univ) • Building a data warehouse for environmental data

  15. Storage Indexing Session (3/3) • Indexing and selection in huge data sets (CERN LHCB, Sébastien Ponce) • Multi-dimensional selections (up to 30 variables), among 1010 events of 100 KB each (1 PB/year) • Using tags • A subset of the data item it represents • A “pointer” to this item • The subset of the item contains a few values that will be available for fast selection criteria • A tag is a small structured entity that can easily be stored in a relational database

  16. Potpourri Session (1-2/3) • The one terabyte tape cartridge and beyond (STK) • Discussing the design and implementation of a multi TB 3480 form factor cartridge using MP media and linear recording • Medium has primary impact on areal density growth • Limit for MP tape is 10 Gb/in2 • Head technology is in good shape • Tape not near any fundamental limits at this time, 5 to 10 TB tape with 150/560 MB/s conceivable. • Efficient RAID scheduling on smart disks (Univ of Minnesota) • Parity computations (XOR) implemented inside disks (no longer done by HW RAID controllers or by software). Three new SCSI commands.

  17. Potpourri Session (3/3) • Experimentally evaluating in-place delta reconstruction • Software distribution to huge number of clients over low bandwidth (and usually wireless) links using compressed deltas against previous version. • In place decompression : no scratch space needed • Large scale, highly mobile applications on inexpensive hardware

  18. Agenda Tutorials (4 presentations) Network storage (6) Hierarchical Storage Management (6) Storage Indexing (3) and Miscellaneous (3) Short papers (7) Vendor presentations (9) Panel : Storage retrospective and prospective Conclusions and own impressions

  19. Short papers • Building a massive distributed storage infrastructure at Indiana University • HPSS and IBM hardware • High density holographic storage • Storage stability of MP media (Fuji) • iSCSI initiator implementation (IBM) • Efficiently scheduling tape-resident jobs • Java and Real Time Storage Applications (STK) • Performance analysis and testing of SANs

  20. Agenda Tutorials (4 presentations) Network storage (6) Hierarchical Storage Management(6) Storage Indexing (3) and Miscellaneous (3) Short papers (7) Vendor presentations (9) Panel : Storage 10 year prospective Conclusions and own impressions

  21. Vendor presentations • Sony DIR-2000 : 600 GB-128 MB/s • SN 6000 : STK Marketing blurb • BlueARC : NAS box offering CIFS/NFS/FTP/HTTP interface implemented in silicon • Brocade : Marketing blurb about SAN security • EMC : Avalon HSM software suite. • SANavigator : Management and monitoring software suite for SANs • Ampex : • Current : DST drive (300 GB helical -20 MB/s) and library • Working on : 1 TB DST M cart, still helical ($0.30 GB)-40 MB/s

  22. Agenda Tutorials (4 presentations) Network storage (6) Hierarchical Storage Management (6) Storage Indexing (3) and Miscellaneous (3) Short papers (7) Vendor presentations (9) Panel : Storage 10 year prospective Conclusions and own impressions

  23. Panel: A 10 year prospective • Magnetic disk : density up to 50 Tb/in2 • Magnetic tape : Tape still there in the future, still wins on volumetric efficiency and $/GB • Optical disk : Marketing guy (UDO = 30 GB/2003,120 GB in 2007) • Networked Storage : More intelligence in devices (OSD), more bandwidth, more automation • Storage security : Cost will increase A LOT

  24. Conclusions and own impressions • Tutorials were really good and varied • A few good technology presentations for PASTA and technical ideas • Not much marketing hype except vendor presentations • This conference is a MUST GO for DS group (the only one ?) • Washington area was by far too hot… • URL : www.storageconference.org, Adobe Acrobat 5 required

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